On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> But there is no end to human ingenuity. There is a
> famous Tamil proverb "Vallavanukku Pullum Ayudham" meaning "Even a blade of
> Grass can become a weapon in the hands of a truly capable person". The
> Voyager space probes which are on the edge of the solar system, nearing
> interstellar space run with processor much less capable than the processor
> in the cheapest cell phone you can buy. They work with 8000 bytes of RAM.
> With this, the human `spirit` in them was capable of bringing voyager 2 on
> a grand tour of the planets keeping it's date with each planet and is
> currently `on course` at nearly 17 billion Km from home.

Well said - a beautiful perspective.    Small is beautiful, Small is
powerful, our imagination is the Limitation!

-- Arun Khan
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